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Steb Fisher has received funding from the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility.

A total of about 3000 indicator time series were extracted from national climate archives and collated into the unique dataset described here.

The session was kicked - off by Mr. Daniel Abreu, from the National Climate Change Council of the Dominican Republic, who highlighted «the experience of developing the National Climate Change Learning Strategy in the Dominican Republic during the pilot phase of UN CC: Learn was very positive».

With help from national Climate Reality staff, students at participating campuses receive guidance in designing campaigns and organizing fellow students to convince their schools to embrace clean energy and sustainability.

In fact, according a recent report from the National Climate Data Center, this has been the sixth warmest winter on record.

For the assessments of climate impacts made herein, we follow guidance from the National Climate Assessment and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on how to standardize confidence levels and uncertainty characterization in our key messages, as provided below.

«States realize that they want access to this information; they want to have a better network and a better approach for applying information from the national climate assessments to their own infrastructure and other investment needs, so this is a way for them to make the statement that they want to participate and see this move forward,» Moss said.

Risky Business based its findings on data from the National Climate Assessment and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports, as well as peer - reviewed literature on extreme weather impacts on crops, labor productivity and energy system performance.

Not exact matches

The jaunty outlook is recharging animal spirits in corner offices: In its January survey of small companies, the National Federation of Independent Business found that 32 % of the enterprises rated the present climate «a good time to expand»; that was a record high and a threefold increase from late 2016.

But the Pentagon maintains that climate change impacts, including refugees from drought - stricken areas of the world and rising sea levels, are a significant threat to national security, as The New York Times reported.

Research group Climate Central has created a plug - in for Google Earth that illustrates how catastrophic an «extreme» sea - level rise scenario would be if the flooding happened now, based on projections in a 2017 report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA).

Feeley went on to criticize many of Trump's signature national - security and foreign policies, including the travel ban, plans to build a wall along the US - Mexico border, decision to end legal protections for the children of people living in the US illegally, and withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement and the Trans - Pacific Partnership.

Alice Hill, who directed resilience policy for the National Security Council in the Obama administration, said the wider debate over cutting climate - warming emissions may have distracted people from promptly pursuing ways to reduce risks and economic and societal costs from natural disasters.

Under Paul Martin, we saw a climate plan proposal from Ottawa — but it was federal rather than national, and most of it didn't go into effect.

Ms. Freeman formerly served as Counselor for Energy and Climate Change in the White House from 2009 to 2010 and as an independent consultant to the National Commission on the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling in 2010.

If we look to federal jurisdiction, the National Energy Board has issued a series of decisions since 2010, with input from Environment and Climate Change Canada, requiring offsetting for caribou and other species at risk and rare or sensitive habitats.

Francis's encyclical joins a number of documents, including the 2006 Evangelical Climate Initiative, a 2011 National Association of Evangelicals report, and a 2013 letter from 200 evangelical scientists to Congress, that «all state in clear and unmistakable terms that caring about climate change is caring for «the least of these,»» wrote evangelical climate scientist Katharine Climate Initiative, a 2011 National Association of Evangelicals report, and a 2013 letter from 200 evangelical scientists to Congress, that «all state in clear and unmistakable terms that caring about climate change is caring for «the least of these,»» wrote evangelical climate scientist Katharine climate change is caring for «the least of these,»» wrote evangelical climate scientist Katharine climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe.

- how you can claim it's unfair to characterize evangelicals as anti-intellectual while following a man who believes conspiracy theories from the National Enquirer, thinks climate change is a hoax, says vaccines cause autism, and displays such breathtaking ignorance regarding the state of the world and foreign policy that no former presidents will endorse him and multiple generals, foreign policy experts, editorial boards, and heads of state have denounced him as dangerously uninformed,

Last night, NBA on TNT anchor Ernie Johnson broke from the sport show's typical format and took a moment to address the national climate.

A revived Sunday school may temporarily find favorable growing conditions in the present conservative national climate, but for its continued health and growth it must be freed from five stereotypes.

We hope this project will serve as a model for future national initiatives that can be scaled with funds from programs such as the Green Climate Fund.»

While the national wine industry has shrunk 1.9 per cent annually from 2009 to 2014, the Tasmanian state industry is growing at a rate of close to 10 per cent per annum, according to the Tasmanian Climate Change Office.

From shaping pensions reform to managing climate change; reforming personal injury compensation to effective regulation of financial services, the ABI's 2007 national conference will tackle all the key issues facing the industry and wider society.

Climate change has certainly been good for the health of at least one ecosystem, judging from a piece that appeared in National Journal's Under the Influence blog this week:

Much has been said about the global environmental, economic and leadership consequences of United States President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement but there is also a national security dimension.

«Governor Cuomo has been a national leader in the fight to protect and preserve the environment from the effects of climate change.

Professor Amamoo - Otchere said while reviewing some policies on climate change, it emerged that the much touted Better Ghana Agenda espoused by the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) was actually adopted from works done by the NDPC.

And while he likes to proclaim himself as a national leader on climate change, he is flooding the state with imported fracked gas, giving billions of dollars to old nukes, and is getting only 3 to 4 % of the state's electricity from renewables,» noted Hawkins.

Unless... Suppose David Cameron and Nick Clegg announced that they agreed with Ed Miliband's warning over the weekend that Britain is «sleepwalking to a crisis», and that «climate change threatens national security» — and went on to commit themselves to working together on a long - term plan to protect the nation not just from extreme weather conditions but the other consequences of climate change.

While he says good things could result from the people calling for a convention, he's frightened about the «really bad things [that] could happen,» citing the conservative climate now prevalent in politics at both the state and national levels which has the potential to revert or even repeal existing protections, such as the Forever Wild provision.

The candidates fielded 14 questions, ranging from their stances on national issues — all asserted their belief in climate change and said they were against eliminating federal tax deductions for local property taxes — to how they'd help the homeless.

Martin Babinec, an independent candidate, along with Republican Claudia Tenney and Democrat Kim Myers sparred on issues ranging from the economy, national security and economic development, as well as climate change, water quality and gun control.

President Donald Trump removed climate change from the list of worldwide threats menacing the United States, a shift that underscores the long - term ramifications of the «America first» world view he laid out in his new National Security Strategy.

The workshop is sponsored by New York Sea Grant (NYSG) with additional funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Community Climate Adaptation Initiative Program and the Environmental Protection Fund under the authority of the New York Ocean and Great Lakes Ecosystem Conservation Act.

Pundits attributed his loss to a variety of factors, ranging from a poor campaign organization to a national political climate favoring Republicans

New York, NY — Reshma Saujani, founder of the national nonprofit Girls Who Code and a Democratic candidate for New York City Public Advocate, today launched Up to Us, a new campaign to empower women voters to shift the political climate and conversation away from the sex scandals that have turned New York City's summer campaign season into a national spectacle.

Panels and training sessions starred political directors and digital gurus from the Democratic National Committee, Planned Parenthood, NextGen Climate, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee who walked audience members — many of them field organizers and young digital staffers from various midterm races — through the micro-tactics that worked in 2014 and the ones that didn't.

He said Lib Dems had seen off opposition from Tory Eric Pickles to low carbon homes and Michael Gove wanting to drop climate change from the national draft curriculum for geography.

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«Organisms can deal with these stressful transitions from warm to cold by either acclimating - think about dogs putting on their winter coats - or by populations genetically evolving to deal with new stresses, a phenomenon known as rapid climate adaptation,» said Alison Gerken, a post-doctoral associate with UF's Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology and the lead author of a new study, published this month in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

With funding from Maryland Sea Grant, a program funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the State of Maryland, Kenney has launched a «listening tour» to understand the scientific needs of regional and local decision - makers related to increasing resilience to climate change.

Nelson and his colleagues, working with funding from the World Bank and Asian Development Bank, estimated global agricultural impacts by pairing IFPRI's own economic models for crop yields with climate models for precipitation and temperature from the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research and Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization.

This scenario may simply be a taste of a world undergoing climate change in the mid — 21st century, according to a new report from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), a Washington, D.C. — based organization seeking an end to hunger and poverty through appropriate local, national and international agricultural policies.

A new, highly permeable carbon capture membrane developed by scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) could lead to more efficient ways of separating carbon dioxide from power plant exhaust, preventing the greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere and contributing to climate change.

A new report from the National Resources Defense Council and the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization concludes that 10 national parks in California could be headed for steep temperature increases over the nextNational Resources Defense Council and the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization concludes that 10 national parks in California could be headed for steep temperature increases over the nextnational parks in California could be headed for steep temperature increases over the next century

It is great that this cruise departed from the National Oceanography Centre Southampton, which hosts a large scientific community that uses ocean drilling as a key tool to unravel how our planet operates and past climate and tectonic cycles.»

In a project sponsored by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Carbon Monitoring System research initiative, researchers from the Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI) found that global livestock methane (CH4) emissions for 2011 are 11 % higher than the estimates based on guidelines provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2006.

Climate legislation that could enact a carbon cap - and - trade system, or a national renewable portfolio standard that would require a percentage of U.S. energy to come from renewable sources, is stuck in Congress.

However, in a new paper published in Proceedings of the National of Sciences USA (PNAS) scientists from the University of Helsinki, Faculty of Science, show that key environmental parameters, namely climate - related primary productivity, biodiversity, and pathogen stress have strong influence on the global pattern of population densities of ethnographically documented hunter - gatherers.

«In moving from two to four degrees you really do see, in all our best estimates, a major increase in the level of action required,» says climate - adaptation expert Mark Stafford Smith, science director for Australia's national science agency.